Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps…

Which creature was appointed to adjudicate the contest between the Tortoise and the Hare?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: appoint, adjudicate · To what, where: creature, contest

This is exam question 1 of lesson 143 «Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps and the Tortoise wins the race» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appointed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 appointed	aux:pass
4	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 adjudicate	mark
6	adjudicate	adjudicate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 appointed	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 contest	det
8	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 adjudicate	obj
9	between	between	ADP	_	11 Tortoise	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Tortoise	det
11	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 adjudicate	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Hare	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Hare	det
14	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Tortoise	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 appointed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appoint	past · passive		which creature					tree rules
2	adjudicate	to-infinitive		the contest				between the Tortoise and the Hare	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The Wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fox	det
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The Crow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Crow	det
2	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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